Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's filling-station operators obeyed President Nixon's call to shut down between 9 p.m. Saturday and midnight Sunday. Whether the closings actually saved much-or any-fuel is questionable. Some stations did double their normal business on Saturday, then ran dry in the early-Monday rush. "It's just like the run on nylons in World War II," said a Boston attendant. Highways were nearly emptied in some areas; toll takers on Chicago expressways had unaccustomed leisure to lean out of their booths and chat between collections. But around such cities as San Francisco...
Leckie then scored his second goal of the game for the Crimson at 10:35. Bill Horton followed one minute later with a spectacular rush and a goal to cut the deficit...
...RUSH, LINDA RONSTADT--Tom Rush still has one of the smoothest voices to come out of Boston and splendid taste in the songs he sings. The combination of Rush with Linda Ronstadt, one of the most powerful and versatile of country rock singers, should be splendid. Ronstadt had a fairly inauspicious beginning singing a song which I think was called "Different Drum" with a short-lived group, the Stone Poneys before starting out on her ever-improving solo...
CHRIS SMITHER--Like Rush, Chris Smither is a local boy making it good in the musical diaspora. Smither has the studied loneliness of James Taylor, but a few things Taylor lacks--wryness, variety, a voice that can sing blues. He is, in short, talented. Like many of his cohorts who established quite a folk community here some years ago, Smither is heard in the neighborhood ever more rarely--all, the more reason to see him in the congenial atmosphere of Passim...
...RUSH, LINDA RONSTADT--Fri. Dec. 14 at the Orpheum...